Proxima Star System
A Swarm Meteor, launched randomly more than a hundred years ago, has miraculously entered the Proxima Star System after constantly changing its course.
If it had maintained its ideal speed, it should have reached its current location more than 30 years ago, but it encountered several situations along the way that required it to slow down.
Although its speed has slowed down considerably, it will only take less than two months to reach the orbit of the outermost planet in the Proxima Star System.
Moreover, this is the closest the Swarm Meteor has ever reached to the Proxima Star System.
A response team of 20,000 people was assembled, including experts and scholars in astronomy, spectroscopy, mathematics, physics, environmental science, and other fields.
Since these are all Swarm Intellect, they are very easy to gather. Those without physical bodies can directly travel to the group's research lab within the Swarm Network.
Those with physical bodies can find a nearby Swarm base or Swarm- owned enterprise, store their bodies in the Creep nutrient room, and their consciousness can then return to the Swarm Network, where Rowan will pull them over.
After its formation, the team codenamed "Visit" quickly took over everything concerning the Swarm Meteor codenamed "Greeting Gift." Information collected from various observational devices on the Swarm Meteor was continuously transmitted back.
Information such as spectrum, radiation, and surrounding celestial bodies is analyzed and calculated by a dedicated team for each piece of data.
Because this Swarm Meteor contains technology from a Swarm ago, especially radar technology, which is very rudimentary and outdated, many smaller asteroids or meteorites can only be detected at very close range.
Therefore, for safety reasons, the Swarm Meteor began to slow down after more than a month.
Although this will extend the time it would normally take just over ten days to reach the outermost orbit of the Proxima Star System to more than a year, there are far more obstacles in a star system than in the void. The slowdown will give the Swarm Meteor more time to react when they encounter these obstacles.
Several months later, the Swarm Meteor carefully avoided the outermost asteroid belt of the Proxima Star System. This was the first barrier to entering the Proxima Star System, filled with various small obstacles that could easily cause them to crash into and destroy it.
This stage was the most energy-consuming for the Intellect in the group, because there were simply too many things to observe and calculate. Fortunately, the Swarm had enough manpower. After expanding the group to 100,000 members, the Swarm Meteor finally found the lead-out of the flight path, an area with relatively few obstacles, and successfully crossed it.
This meteorite belt is tens of millions of kilometers wide. Although the Swarm Meteor successfully crossed this obstacle, they also had to slow down several times.
At this point, its speed had dropped to 20 km/s, only one-fifteenth of its initial speed of 30,000 km/s. This speed would further lengthen the time it would take to reach its outer orbit Proxima Star System.
The reason it was so complicated was that the technology on the early Swarm Meteor was too poor. Not only were there many observation organs, but their propulsion devices were also ridiculously inadequate, consisting of only simple hydrogen-oxygen reaction jet devices.
If it were the bio-transport ship Rowan was currently traveling on, there would be no need for such trouble. It could detect obstacles from a much greater distance, and its powerful propulsion system would allow it to handle such situations more flexibly. Even if it was forced to slow down, it could regain its speed afterward.
The latest Bio-ship is equipped with an electromagnetic propulsion system that can easily increase the spacecraft's speed to 20 km/s in space, and with increased power, it can even exceed 50 km/s. Even inside a planet's atmosphere, depending on its size and air density, it can increase its speed to 1-10 km/s.
There's no need to worry about things like now, where once the speed drops, it's very difficult to pick it up again.
The Proxima Star System is smaller than the Origin Star System, with only seven planets. Based on information from their spectra, Rowan and his team wanted the Swarm Meteor to land on the third planet as much as possible.
This planet possesses an atmosphere and is approximately 1.2 times larger than the Origin Star. Furthermore, based on its distance from the sun, its temperature should be between -30 and 50 degrees Celsius. Spectral feedback indicates that the planet's surface contains abundant liquid water.
Everything indicated that this environment, so similar to the Origin Star, could very well have given rise to life. And the genetic information from another star system was extremely attractive to Rowan.
For ease of reference, Rowan named it Proxima A3 Planet... It also has another name Big Origin Star, meaning it's a little bigger than the Origin Star.
The Swarm Meteor is currently about 6 billion kilometers away from this planet, and at its current speed, it will take nearly 10 years to travel.
Fortunately, the space ahead is much cleaner due to the gravitational influence of various celestial bodies, and safety has been greatly improved.
Although the mission has taken longer, the "Visit" team has not been disbanded. According to calculations, several more Swarm Meteor will overcome numerous obstacles and reach the Proxima Star System in the next few years.
The "Visit" team will continue to be responsible for tasks such as planning the flight paths and selecting landing sites for the remaining meteorites. Team members who are not in good health will remain with the team permanently, while those who are in good health will take turns resting.
Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. In these years, in addition to the "Greeting Gift," three other Swarm Meteor, under the command of the "Visit" team, have crossed the outer asteroid belt and entered the Proxima Star System.
On the outermost edge of the Proxima Star System, on the Planet Seven named Great Valley Star, a Swarm Meteor has already landed in its outer orbit.
Of the seven planets in the Proxima Star System, none are gas giants like the Origin A7; all are geological planets. Planets with this composition are ideal for establishing Swarm bases.
Great Valley Star is mainly composed of rock and ice, and is only about one-tenth the size of Origin Star. It has no atmosphere. Although it is much smaller than Origin Star, it has three small moons, one more than Origin Star.
However, due to its distance from the sun, and the fact that it and its satellites are farthest from the sun, the surface temperature of the planet remains around -200 degrees Celsius year-round.
Although the Swarm already had experience building a base on Origin A11, which is also at the outermost Origin the star system, the environment there is much harsher than that of Great Valley Star.
However, the embarrassing thing is that when this Swarm Meteor was launched, the Swarm's technology was still lacking. Although the Creep could resist such an environment, it could not directly absorb radiation energy to nourish itself. It could only draw energy by building its own internal ecosystem, which was very inefficient.
Furthermore, the gene pool of the Insect Empress Egg that come with it, while enough to establish a branch base on Great Valley Star, is still quite risky, and it cannot produce a new generation of units, so it is not very meaningful.
Unlike the Insect Empress Ant Queen, whose gene pool was locked from the moment of hatching, the queens of the insects did not have their gene pool species locked from the moment they hatched. However, Insect Empress that had already been born wanted to update its gene pool, Rowan's own body had to personally connect to it.
Fortunately, the Swarm's technology has been continuously developing. It only needs to wait about twenty years in the orbit of Great Valley Star before Rowan's main body passes through here.
At that time, the gene pool of the Creep Seed and Insect Empress Egg it carries will be updated, and Swarm sub-base will be established on Great Valley Star.